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From: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <guennadi.liakhovetski@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" 
	<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"sound-open-firmware@alsa-project.org" 
	<sound-open-firmware@alsa-project.org>,
	Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>,
	"Bjorn Andersson" <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] vhost: add an RPMsg API
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:33:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200714083359.wn4uoq3d7zzsddkc@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200618141412.GD4189@ubuntu>

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 04:14:12PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 03:52:42PM +0200, Vincent Whitchurch wrote:
> > Note that "the Linux side" is ambiguous for AMP since both sides can be
> > Linux, as they happen to be in my case.  I'm running virtio/rpmsg
> > between two physical processors (of different architectures), both
> > running Linux.
> 
> Ok, interesting, I didn't know such configurations were used too. I understood 
> the Linux rpmsg implementation in the way, that it's assumed, that the "host" 
> has to boot the "device" by sending an ELF formatted executable image to it, is 
> that optional? You aren't sending a complete Linux image to the device side, 
> are you?

I do pack the zImage, the dtb, and the initramfs into an ELF (along with
a tiny "bootloader" with just a handful of instructions), but the
remoteproc framework is not tied to the ELF format since ->parse_fw()
and friends are overridable by the remoteproc driver.

> > virtio has distinct driver and device roles so the completely different
> > APIs on each side are understandable.  But I don't see that distinction
> > in the rpmsg API which is why it seems like a good idea to me to make it
> > work from both sides of the link and allow the reuse of drivers like
> > rpmsg-char, instead of imposing virtio's distinction on rpmsg.
> 
> Understand. In principle I'm open to this idea, but before I implement it it 
> would be good to know what maintainers think?

Certainly.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-14  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-27 18:05 [PATCH v3 0/5] Add a vhost RPMsg API Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-05-27 18:05 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] vhost: convert VHOST_VSOCK_SET_RUNNING to a generic ioctl Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-05-27 18:05 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] vhost: (cosmetic) remove a superfluous variable initialisation Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-05-27 18:05 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] rpmsg: move common structures and defines to headers Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-05-27 18:05 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] rpmsg: update documentation Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-05-28 19:26   ` Mathieu Poirier
2020-05-27 18:05 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] vhost: add an RPMsg API Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-05-28 19:26   ` Mathieu Poirier
2020-06-17 19:17   ` Vincent Whitchurch
2020-06-18  9:03     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-06-18  9:33       ` Vincent Whitchurch
2020-06-18 10:39         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-06-18 13:52           ` Vincent Whitchurch
2020-06-18 14:14             ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-07-14  8:33               ` Vincent Whitchurch [this message]
2020-05-29  6:01 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Add a vhost " Jason Wang
2020-05-29  6:50   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-05-29  7:06     ` Jason Wang
2020-06-04 19:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-05  6:34   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-06-08  7:37     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-06-08  9:09       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-08  9:11       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-06-08  9:19         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-08 10:15           ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-06-08 11:16             ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2020-06-08 13:08               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-08 13:01             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-05 10:01   ` [Sound-open-firmware] " Liam Girdwood

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